Originally from Arkansas, Charles Green teaches writing at Cornell University. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New England Review, Salt Hill, and Tar River Poetry, among other venues. Green's nonfiction, “Against Sayings,” was originally published in The Southeast Review Volume 34.2. Against Sayings There may be nothing new under the sun, but that doesn’t mean we’ve seen or said it all. Humans see three primary colors; the butterfly perhaps five; the mantis

Ernie Wang resides in Las Vegas. He grew up in Japan, and he is ethnically Japanese and Chinese. He holds an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his fiction and nonfiction appear in McSweeney's Quarterly, The Threepenny Review, PEN America Best Debut Short Stories, and others. Hiroshi's Light They finally send for me in early 1945. By then, we had come to believe they chose to overlook us, those of us living insignificantly in rural eastern Utah. Also by then, w

Photo by Jonathan Self Poet, novelist, and dancer Tishani Doshi was born in Madras, India, to Welsh and Gujarati parents. She is the author of six books of poetry and fiction, and has been honored with an Eric Gregory Award and an All-India Poetry Prize. Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods was published by HarperCollins in South Asia, Bloodaxe Books, Ltd. in the United Kingdom, and Copper Canyon Press in the United States. Doshi lives with her husband and dogs on a beach in Tam

Quiñones's poem "Ode to Desire" was originally published in The Southeast Review 35.2. Ode to Desire Oh perfect engine you craft me into my most terrible self with two mouths two furious gazes you break the spines of my favorite books & cover my body with their unbound poems I prefer your lights dim like a rolling black wave I promise to hold my knees to my chest when it suits you please bruise my neck & make it the color of strange water you who are the written thing r

Ashley Caveda received her MFA from The Ohio State University. Her writing has appeared in Monkeybicycle, Ruminate Magazine, and the Southeast Review. She works at Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic in Indianapolis, telling the stories of others through video production, blogging, and podcasting. Currently, she is writing a YA science fiction novel about a young woman with a disability. Caveda's nonfiction, “Hail Able Bodies,” was originally published in The Southeast Review

This Review was written by Lisa McMurtray and was featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 33.1. Wendy Xu. You Are Not Dead. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013. $15.95. “Maybe don’t for another minute be afraid / of anything,” Wendy Xu writes in her first full-length collection, You Are Not Dead. And it is easy to be unafraid while reading these poems because these poems ask the reader to give themselves fully to the moment, to ignore mortality but also to be acutely

Brandon Lingle's work has appeared in various publications including The American Scholar, Guernica, The Normal School, The North American Review, and New York Times At War. He edits nonfiction for War, Literature, and the Arts. Views are his own. "Tourniquet" was a notable in The Best American Essays 2016. Lingle's nonfiction, “Tourniquet,” was originally published in The Southeast Review Volume 33.2. Tourniquet The Iraqi boy beside me reaches down to slide his fingertip in

Infinity Plus One after Terry Boyd This day allotted red sun. Control background, a son borne the shivers. Remember I replaced the river a whole strand of waterway. Overlap Do you trust human error. Nervous the line. Operations a texture below our given circle a calm row of pattern when we straightline the audience. A small function where we close the fabric. I once shaped liquid path Then golden river into mammal. Then blue sore spreading fro